2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (46+ words) Literary Hub Here are this week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus....

2+ hour, 38+ min ago  (393+ words) Paul Tremblay's'Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Colin Asher's'The Midnight Special, and Jenny Jackson's'The Shampoo Effect'all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by'Book Marks, Lit Hub's home for book reviews. 1.'Devotions'by Lucy Caldwell (Faber…...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (141+ words) From the world's wildest places to the origins of American fascism to memoirs of grief and recovery, July's nonfiction has something for everyone. The Savage Landscape, Cal Flyn They Stole a City, Lauren Collins Our Knives Will Save Us, Nephi…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1079+ words) Literary Hub Here's the Frederick Douglass Speech to Revisit This July 4th Robert S. Levine Explains Why It's Not the Most Obvious One Frederick Douglass' great lecture "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? ," delivered on July 5th, 1852, to a predominantly…...

6+ hour, 1+ min ago  (117+ words) Fiona Marchbank, Ladies of the Knight (Oni Press, July 7) Joan Tierney, Misery's Wife (Flatiron Books, July 14) M. A. Carrick, The Eye of Leviathan (Orbit Books, July 14) Seth Haddon, Null Entity (Tordotcom Publishing, July 21) Andrea Eames, A Tangled Magic (Erewhon Books, July 28) Elizabeth…...

13+ hour, 50+ min ago  (629+ words) Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Dwight Garner on Colin Asher's'The Midnight Special, Hamilton Cain on Teddy Wayne's'The Au Pair, Michael Donkor on Keith Ridgway's'Dooneen, Stephen Marche on Cory Doctorow's'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, and…...

13+ hour, 54+ min ago  (528+ words) Literary Hub Jenny Jackson on the Literary Potential of Gossip "If you find yourself hanging on every word of a whispered story, chances are the reader will too." I am an unapologetic collector of gossip. Bring me your tales of…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (317+ words) I've got a quick challenge for you, children's book fans: Close your eyes, clear your mind, and visualize an illustration from a picture book you loved as a child. (Then open your eyes again, please, so you can read the…...

13+ hour, 47+ min ago  (46+ words) Literary Hub Here are this week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus....

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (670+ words) Their guide, who'd introduced himself as Murphy, spoke as he walked and without looking back. "We don't have that much source material left, obviously, but it's evident from what we do have that neither the risks nor the potential benefits…...